Re: THEORY ago

On 1/17/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> > One can use asterisks for italics, but _underscores_ are more common.
>
> For me, *asterisks* mark bold text, not italics.
I use semantic rather than syntactic markup. :)  That is, I use *...*
for emphasis, but _..._ for non-emphatic cases that might be
italicized if typeset, such as titles (where an underline would be an
appropriate typewritten substitute).

However, I try to avoid using *...* on this list in particular,
because the linguistic convention of using a single prefixed * to
denote an unattested form is quite common here, so there's the
potential for confusion.  For similar reasons, the convention of using
/.../ for italics, which is popular in some circles, is a poor choice
on this list.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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